The UpTake: A mess of accusations at this well-known social network for coders results in the resignation of one of its co-founders. But perhaps not for the most expected reasons.

The co-founder of GitHub, Tom Preston-Werner, who last month was accused of sexism and intimidation of an employee, resigned today but he denied ever engaging in “gender-based harassment or discrimination,” according to a personal blog post.

Preston-Werner wasn't the only one involved in the case to hit the web with online statements. In fact, all four parties at the center of the blow-out quickly made their thoughts public.

“I tried to treat people better than they expected and to resolve conflict with empathy,” wrote Preston-Werner. He and his wife Theresa were accused by a former employee, Julie Ann Horvath, of various kinds of harassment. “Despite that, I've made mistakes, and I am deeply sorry to anyone who was hurt by those mistakes.”

Horvath, who previously worked at Yammer, responded on Twitter by enumerating her complaints against the company, and expressing doubt about the GitHub CEOs claim that the company conducted a "full, independent third-party investigation" into Preston-Werner’s actions.

“There was no investigation,” she tweeted. Followed by, “There was a series of conversations with a "mediator" who sought to relieve GitHub of any legal responsibility.”

Chris Wanstrath, GitHub's CEO, wrote in a company blog post that his co-founder and his co-founder's wife, who Horvath told TechCrunch tried to keep her from disparaging the company, hadn’t committed any illegal acts. Wanstrath took over as chief in January—before the allegations surfaced—when Preston-Werner stepped down from the top job to take on a research and development spot in the company. It's that job Preston-Werner left today.

“However, while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment,” Wanstrath wrote.

Interestingly, Theresa Preston-Werner, Tom’s wife, and the founder and CEO of the non-profit Omakase Charity, wrote in a blog post on Medium that the “errors of judgement”—as Wanstrath called them—might have had nothing to do with sexual harassment.

"We learned that unnamed employees felt pressured by Tom and me to work pro-bono for my nonprofit," she wrote.

The complete truth of this mess may never be known, but plans going forward seem a bit more certain.

GitHub has implemented “a number” of “training opportunities” for its employees, according to Wanstrath’s post. Tom Preston-Werner writes that his next venture will be in “immersive computing,” aka, virtual reality. Last month,Theresa’s company, which facilitates philanthropy in the tech community became the first non-profit company accepted to the TechStars boot camp.

Horvath is currently listed as a “Designer, Developer, Visual Storyteller” at &yet, a software company based in Richland, Washington. To those who say they would never hire her after the incident, she tweeted, "I would never, ever work for you. Self-selection bias is finally doing us a favor."

Michael del Castillo is the technology and innovation reporter at Upstart Business Journal, a member of American City Business Journals. A graduate of Columbia University, his work has appeared in the New Yorker. He is also the cofounder of Literary Manhattan, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Manhattan’s literary community and creating new ways to appreciate literature.

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